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Lives in Education
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents the history of education, from early times until the present, and in many different civilizations. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated.
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Why Iran’s Fuel Tankers for Venezuela Are Sending Shudders Through Washington
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
26 May 2020 – Why the United States did not block the Iranian vessels does not have to do with Iran or Venezuela alone. It has to do with the presence of China behind both countries.
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Freedom vs. License
Ronald W. Pies, MD | Psychiatric Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
15 May 2020 – Freedom Does Not Mean Being on the Loose – Many years ago, I treated depression in a man in his 50s who regaled me with stories of his tumultuous teens and twenties. “Doc,” he said, “back then, I was drinking and drugging anytime I felt like it, sleeping with whoever I wanted to. I really thought I was free. But you know what? I was just on the loose!”
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Animal Rights Activists Uncover the Locations of Thousands of Factory Farms
Alleen Brown | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
31 May 2020 – Animal rights activists published an interactive map today revealing the locations of more than 27,500 farms and animal agriculture facilities, including 5,812 identified using satellite imagery, many of which do not appear in public records. Users will be able to pin new locations to the map and attach photos and videos documenting animal cruelty and health violations. The animal agriculture industry has spent decades fighting to avoid the disclosure of such information.
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The End of Coronavirus: An Anticipatory View
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
When will the corona virus end?
When W.H.O this statement will globally send
The virus is under control and
globally prevented
Why Julian Assange Must Urgently Be Freed
Stella Moris | El País - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
The life of my partner, Julian Assange, is at severe risk. He is on remand at HMP Belmarsh, and Covid-19 is spreading within its walls. Julian and I have two little boys.
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Neither War nor Peace: The Shared Sacrificial Militancy of Fanon and Gandhi
Sayres Rudy | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
Frantz Fanon’s psychoanalytic endorsement of violence and Mohandas Gandhi’s religious non-violence are usually considered opposed theoretical expressions of resistance. Given this apparent polarity, most analysts contrast rather than align their broader commitments and methods. But Fanon and Gandhi held similar militant views in several non-trivial ways, that is, beyond their strategic “realism,” denunciations of imperial dehumanization, and anxieties over non-western postcolonial political orders.
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Global Capitalism, “World Government” and the Corona Crisis
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
24 May 2020 – The World is being misled concerning the causes and consequences of the corona crisis. The COVID-19 crisis is marked by a public health “emergency” under WHO auspices which is being used as a pretext and a justification to triggering a worldwide process of economic, social and political restructuring. Social engineering is being applied. Governments are pressured into extending the lockdown, despite its devastating economic and social consequences. What is happening is unprecedented in World history.
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(Português) Pior Zoo da Grã-Bretanha Anuncia que Matará Seus Animais
ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
26 maio 2020 – Os proprietários do Borth Wild Animal Kingdom, considerado o pior zoológico de toda a Grã-Bretanha, afirmaram que cogitam sacrificar os animais aprisionado no local devido à falta de recursos trazida pelo bloqueio imposto para impedir a propagação da Covid-19.
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Home (Music Video of the Week)
David Byrne | Talking Heads – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
From the movie This Must Be the Place (2011) starring Sean Penn
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Letters, Telegrams and Post Offices — Tradition and Technology
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
26 May 2020 – Before the advent of the modern means of communication–email, SMS, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc–people used to depend mainly on the Post Offices for sending letters and telegrams. On 15 July 2013, the service came to an end after about 160 years of service in India. It was a sad day for many persons, including me.
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Reducing Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
K. A. Prather, et al. | Science Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
Masks and testing are necessary to combat asymptomatic spread in aerosols and droplets. Airborne spread from undiagnosed infections will continuously undermine the effectiveness of even the most vigorous testing, tracing, and social distancing programs. From epidemiological data, countries that have been most effective in reducing the spread of COVID-19 have implemented universal masking.
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100+ Free Education for Peace (and Justice) Resources Online
Taylor O'Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
So to save you some time, and also to tap you into some really great resources you may not have found otherwise, I spent a little time organizing and posting it up here for you. Actually, it took me much longer than I expected, but hey, sharing is caring, right?
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Yes to Life, in Spite of Everything: Moving beyond Optimism and Pessimism to Find the Deepest Source of Meaning
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
“Everything depends on the individual human being, regardless of how small a number of like-minded people there is… each person, through action and not mere words, creatively making the meaning of life a reality in his or her own being.”
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Snowden
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
Edward Snowden’s book is not a ‘coming-of-age’ saga. It is necessary to say that at the outset. One of the peculiarities of our times is the penchant for rendering everything in terms of so-called ‘human interest.’ The most profound events, the most penetrating analysis, the most stirring ideas – all are reduced to personality. Whether it is the personality of the author, a representation of the subject, or some background character.
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Weapons Don’t Fight Pandemics (series)
Tom Janssen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
Coronavirus vs Goliath
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Deforestation, Oil Spills, and Coronavirus: Crises Converge in the Amazon
Rachel Ramirez | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
29 May 2020 – Brazil recently became the country with the second highest number of COVID-19 cases in the world, trailing only the United States. Its daily number of reported deaths was double that seen in the U.S. this week. The country has suffered roughly 400,000 confirmed cases and 25,000 deaths.
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The Hawaii Navy Base Fueling Trump’s Quest for ‘Super Duper’ Missiles
Jon Letman | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
31 May 2020 – Hawaii’s “garden island”, Kauai, is known for its breathtaking scenery and laid-back vibe, a place of plunging waterfalls and cliffs cloaked in green tropical forests. But beyond its beauty it is one of the Pentagon’s most valued testing and training sites in the Pacific. But some residents view the islands’ highly militarized state as misguided or even illegal.
→ read full articleOn the Dialectic between Social Processes and Health/Illness Processes
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
From TMS Editor: An editorial from Johan Galtung a bit longer and older but with contemporary relevance. From the context of the 1980’s HIV-AIDS pandemic, Galtung offers unique insights into the hurdles and challenges humanity faces today with COVID-19.
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Passing Behind Our Backs
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
Like Bob Dylan, “I return once again to Homer who says, ‘Sing in me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story.’” Our stories often happen behind our backs where we can’t see them. Telling them is the trick. You need to turn around and see what’s behind you to pass them around.
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Venezuela: Gold Kept at Bank of England Needed to Fight COVID-19
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
27 May 2020 – The South American country and United Nations will seek to release the gold held in the British entity.
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Latest Update: Facts about COVID-19
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
Fully referenced facts about Covid-19, provided by experts in the field, to help our readers make a realistic risk assessment.
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Madam Jane Predicts: COVID Will Show Americans What It’s Like to Live in the Middle East
Jane Stillwater - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jun 2020
20 May 2020 – “COVID-19 is America’s karmic payback for callously murdering all those babies in Iraq and Syria,” stated Madam Jane this morning. “Karma’s a bitch.” “Stop, just stop it!” I screamed at her, horrified. “This time you have gone too far.”
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Living Together in Peace
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
The UN has designated 16 May as Living Together in Peace day. It therefore seems appropriate to mark this day by discussing the reasons why war must be eliminated as a human institution. On our small but beautiful Earth, made small by technology, made beautiful by nature, there is room for one group only: the family of humankind.
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Ethics and Governance for Digital Disease Surveillance
Michelle M. Mello and C. Jason Wang | Science Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
11 May 2020 – The Question Is Not Whether to Use New Data Sources but How – Digital epidemiology—the use of data generated outside the public health system for disease surveillance—has been in use for more than a quarter century. But several countries have taken digital epidemiology to the next level in responding to COVID-19.
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COVID: Collective Overpopulation Vitiating Individual Dreams?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Neglected Critical Factor Undermining Global Strategic Viability – The attention of the media and governments worldwide to “COVID” can be seen as unprecedented. It is now a primary preoccupation of international institutions, most obviously the UN and the WHO. The strategic response has been variously framed as a “war.”
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First Iranian Fuel Tanker Reaches Venezuelan Waters without US Interference
Reuters | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
24 May 2020 – The first of five tankers loaded with gasoline sent from Iran has reached Venezuelan waters, expected to temporarily ease the South American nation’s fuel crunch while defying Trump administration sanctions targeting the two US foes. Iran’s president had earlier warned the US not to try to stop the flotilla sent to ease Venezuela’s fuel shortage.
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WAR!
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
U.S. Memorial Day 2020:
War!
Side pitted against other!
Human against human!
Primitive!
Are We Having Fun Yet?
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Click on the link below and join/enjoy the Heavy Duty party…
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
American Transcendentalism Web – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Emerson had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adulation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
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Another Bank Bailout under Cover of a Virus
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
18 May 2020 – Insolvent Wall Street banks have been quietly bailed out again. Banks made risk-free by the government should be public utilities.
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World Bee Day: Poisons Mean Extinction for Bees and Humanity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, the UN designated 20 May as World Bee Day. The choices before humanity are clear, a Poison Free Future to save Bees, Farmers, our Food and Humanity. Or continue to use poisons, threatening our common future by walking blindly to extinction through the arrogance that we can substitute bees with artificial intelligence and robots.
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Planetary Transformations: A Progressive Quest
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
20 May 2020 – Below are three texts: a paper by the widely respected writer and progressive scholar, Val Moghadam, which describes what it might mean to have a left transformative movement of planetary scope; followed by a short explanatory essay by Paul Raskin, who exercises intellectual leadership of the Great Transition Network. The third text is my comment on Moghadam’s paper.
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20 Peace and Solutions-oriented News Media Outlets You Never Knew Existed
Taylor O'Connor | Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
There are alternatives to mainstream news media that can keep you well-informed and feeling inspired: the peace and solutions-oriented media outlets. The challenge is that mainstream news across the political spectrum tend to dominate what we are exposed to on TV and social media. To take control of your media consumption, you have to not only know viable alternatives, but you have to be intentional about the news you consume.
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Hotel California (Music Video of the Week)
Eagles - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Hotel California – Eagles 1976 (Lyrics)
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Bakunin formulated no coherent body of doctrine, and his voluminous and vigorous writings were often left incomplete. Anarchist movements owing allegiance to Bakunin flourished in Italy and especially in Spain, where as late as 1936 the anarchists were the strongest revolutionary party. Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer.
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Hacking COVID-19
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
23 May 2020 – Hacking is back in the headlines. The Chinese are accused of breaking into the computers of unnamed American labs – corporate &/or non-corporate – doing research on a coronavirus vaccine. The operative words are ‘China/Chinese’ and ‘hacking’. The two go together like gin & tonic.
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(Português) Veganos Incomodam Porque Não Vêem Animais como Produtos
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Por que não mostrar a outras pessoas que é possível viver bem gerando menos violência? Como consequência, isso reduz a objetificação animal.
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Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
One shop owner asks another,
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New Leadership for a New Normal
Andre Sheldon | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
The response to Covid-19 of countless people confirms that people everywhere see the value of solidarity and unity. The opportunity is here for leaders to create a new global peace movement to promote kindness, compassion, trust, respect, and stopping war!
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Another Pandemic: Sexual Violence during War
Roy Eidelson - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
19 May 2020 – The COVID-19 pandemic has brought renewed worldwide attention to gender-based and sexual violence. In particular, women with abusive partners face heightened danger during the mandatory lockdowns that bring unanticipated stresses while limiting freedom of movement and access to outside resources.
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What Kind of Country Do We Want?
Marilynne Robinson | New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
A narrative has emerged over time that capitalism is the single defining trait of American civilization, the force that has propelled the country not only to unprecedented wealth but also to high levels of personal and political freedom… We are left with the certainty that a civilization can be wholly described by its economy, and that ours is exhaustively and triumphally capitalist.
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Venezuela Failed Raid: US Has a History of Using Mercenaries to Undermine Other Regimes
Andrew Thomson | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
18 May 2020 – US denies backing failed raid to remove Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro – but it has a long history of sponsoring private armies elsewhere.
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Yanghee Lee: Champion of Justice for Rohingyas
C R Abrar | The Daily Star [Bangladesh] - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
19 May 2020 – At a time when the world, including neighbouring Malaysia and Thailand, have shunned the Rohingya (acknowledged as the most persecuted minority in the world), at a time when the Burmese state audaciously tramples the whole corpus of international human rights instruments being aided and abetted by major powers; at a time when those who stand for reason, rule of law and justice feel betrayed by the high and mighty of the world, Yanghee Lee stood firm as a beacon of hope.
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American Hubris Robust in a Cataclysmic Global Pandemic
Askiah Adam | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
22 May 2020 – Few can deny that a perfect storm is brewing and the early foundations for war are being set up by the obvious protagonists. That China has cancelled the dollar peg in its stock exchange transactions opting for the Chinese Yuan is an ominous sign. Washington, meanwhile, is fast creating an anti-China sentiment among its population, blaming China for what President Trump calls the “Wuhan virus” aka Covid-19.
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Europe Should Brace for Second Wave, Says EU Coronavirus Chief
Daniel Boffey | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
20 May 2020 – The prospect of a second wave of coronavirus infection across Europe is no longer a distant theory, according to Dr Andrea Ammon, director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. “The question is when and how big, that is the question in my view.”
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(Italiano) Il problema oltre il COVID-19: fermare la militarizzazione del mondo
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Sembra che non accenni a scemare il flusso, ripetitivo e ormai noioso, di aggiornamenti post-COVID 19. Il mondo dei media si è rappreso intorno ai numeri, alle polemiche, alle foto ripetute all’infinito di presidi medici, bare, interviste agli esperti, piazze deserte, cori incoraggianti… Intanto il mondo va avanti… ma in che direzione? Con i telegiornali e gli ‘speciali’ tutti concentrati sul coronavirus, non c’è più spazio per altro.
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Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network
Barton Gellman | Wired - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
24 May 2020 – In the summer of 2013, I spent my days sifting through the most extensive archive of top-secret files that had ever reached the hands of an American journalist. Edward Snowden had transmitted tens of thousands of classified documents to me, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras. He revealed the agency’s phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew.
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Battle of the Heavyweights
Joe Kandra and Kathie MM | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
A pic is worth a thousand Twitters…
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Since I Met Edward Snowden, I’ve Never Stopped Watching My Back
Barton Gellman | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Jun 2020 issue – “What time exactly does your clock say?” asked the voice on the telephone, the first words Edward Snowden ever spoke to me aloud. I glanced at my wrist—3:22 p.m. “Good. Meet me exactly at four. I’ll be wearing a backpack.” The rendezvous point Snowden selected on 5 Dec 2013 was a casino hotel called the Korston Club in Moscow. After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.
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How We Became Refugees: The Day My Grandfather Lost His Village in Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
15 May 2020 – Starting on March 27, 1948, a beautiful, small Palestinian village called Beit Daras, came under Zionist militias attacks. With little means – a few old rifles and kitchen knives – the Badrasawis fought back, repelling the first raid and the second. The final attack on the peaceful village followed a scorched-earth military strategy, leaving in its wake scores of dead and wounded, and the entirety of the village on the run. Among the thousands of ethnically-cleansed Palestinians in Beit Daras, a family of six, including an infant, salvaged a few old blankets and some supplies and went searching for a safe place, with the hope that they would return home in a few days. Their nearly one hundred descendants are yet to return to Beit Daras, 72 years later.
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Prostitution, the Sex Trade, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Melissa Farley | Logos Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Spring 2020 – The pandemic reveals the exploitation and violence in all forms of prostitution, including sugar daddy/sugar baby prostitution, cell phone/escort prostitution, massage parlor prostitution, street prostitution, webcam prostitution (Moran & Farley, 2018; Farley, 2016). A San Francisco group mainstreaming prostitution as work admitted, “People who are doing street-based sex work may not be able to stop doing sex work to survive,”
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(Italiano) La Guerra [Non Santa] a Papa Francesco
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Qui raccolgo alcune osservazioni da varie persone attente, su questa vera e propria “guerra al papa”, condotta da determinate forze. L’accusa a Francesco di non essere vero cristiano e papa è falsa e malevola, perché – con la pazienza di non abbandonare nessuno, di stare in mezzo al gregge, di farsi anche condurre, di avere l’odore del gregge – egli procede davvero al fedele compimento graduale, per processi e non strappi, del vangelo di Gesù nel mondo di oggi.
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Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
20 May 2020 – In response to the very broad international interest in our work, SPR has been renamed into Swiss Policy Research. A new and comprehensive overview of Studies on Covid-19 lethality is now published, including a section on hospitalization rates. A new update on medical and political developments will follow shortly.
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“America Exists Today to Make War”
Lawrence Wilkerson | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
“America exists today to make war. How else do we interpret 19 straight years of war and no end in sight? It’s part of who we are. It’s part of what the American Empire is,” says Wilkerson. “We are going to cheat and steal to do whatever it is we have to do to continue this war complex. That’s the truth of it. And that’s the agony of it.” — Retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff of Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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Despite the Danger of COVID-19, the US Military Continues War Practice in Europe and Pacific and Plans for More in 2021
Ann Wright | OpEd News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
19 May 2020 – During the COVID-19 pandemic, not only will the U.S. military have the largest maritime military maneuvers in the world, with Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) coming to the waters off Hawaii August 17-31, 2020 bringing 26 nations, 25,000 military personnel, up to 50 ships and submarines and hundreds of aircraft in midst of a worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, but the U.S. Army is having a 6,000-person war game in June 2020 in Poland.
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US Withdraws from Open Skies Treaty, Heightening Danger of War with Russia
Clara Weiss | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
22 May 2020 – The treaty, signed in 1992 after the dissolution of the USSR, has been in full force since 2002. It has been ratified by 34 states, including almost all NATO and EU members, Russia and most countries of the former Soviet Union. The US withdrawal from Open Skies, which will take effect within six months, comes amidst growing tensions with Russia.
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Better World Info: Extensive COVID-19 Resource
Dr Stute, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
I invite all TMS readers to visit our specialized online directory of the novel coronavirus pandemic. This is an outstanding medical resource updated daily by myself. Here you can find reliable information which will help you in your professional and day-to-day life.
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Mango Trees
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
A very old man was planting mango trees. Someone asked him,
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The Price of America’s Quest for an External Enemy
Morgan Godvin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
22 May 2020 The US spent so much fighting phantom enemies and creating the myth of good versus evil that it ignored the real threat.
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The Elite’s COVID-19 Coup: Fighting for Our Humanity, Our Liberty and Our Future
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
On 26 March 2020, the World Intellectual Property Organisation granted Microsoft a world patent. Titled ‘1. WO2020060606 – Cryptocurrency System Using Body Activity Data’, this patent gives Microsoft (that is, Bill Gates) extraordinary power over our lives. It is dramatically changing the meaning of being human. Firstly, it is redefining us as ‘mines’ for data – robbing us of our autonomy, our sovereignty, and control over our bodies and minds.
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Racism & Bias at the Court of Arbitration for Sports: The Sun Yang Decision
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
20 May 2020 – Over the past 5 years, the sport’s “anti doping movement” has been distorted into a political tool to attack Russia and now China. This article reveals the bias behind the decision to ban Chinese athlete Sun Yang for eight years. For example, the president of the panel tweeted against a “yellow faced Chinese monster!” and secretly mocked the athlete’s mother in the hearing. I hope the facts presented here help get a new fair hearing for Sun Yang.
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How Does the US Rally Support for Wars That Kill Millions of Innocent People Worldwide?
Robert Fantina | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
21 May 2020 – These wars have killed millions of innocent men, women and children around the world. Yet more often than not they have been based on weak evidence, questionable motives, and outright lies. Why, then, do large portions of the public staunchly support the US troops? Why are so many Americans satisfied with the U.S. bombings of Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other Middle Eastern countries, knowing that this is creating starvation and refugee crises of catastrophic proportions?
→ read full articleThe Humans and the Viruses: The World Economic Forum and the Coronaviruses
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Let me suggest, first, that there is a plausible explanation at the heart of our failure to live out the best of human nature, and that the current pandemic shows how crucial it is to change it. And, second, that the smartest of the business leaders are realizing that their own fate and the fate of all of us depends on replacing the essence of capitalism with an ethics of solidarity.
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Trump Administration Quietly Adds Foreign Arms Sale to List of “Essential Work”
Taylor Barnes | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
19 May 2020 – Buried on the 18th page of a recently updated federal government memo defining which workers are critical during the Covid-19 pandemic is a new category of essential workers: defense industry personnel employed in foreign arms sales. The original March memos made no mention of the lucrative foreign arms sales that U.S. companies make in the order of $180 billion a year.
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Republican Party’s Corona Big Book
Brett O’Donnel | O’Donnell & Associates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
17 May 2020 – The book was assembled by Brett O’Donnell, who has worked for and is close to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It is basically a script for what Republican Senate candidates are to say. O’Donnell currently serves as a message and media strategist for numerous members of congress and for profit and nonprofit corporations. The Republican Party is using the text to deflect their failed COVID-19 leadership. They believe that if you create a set of lies, muddle them in a conspiracy theory, and have every Republican repeat them over and over, they can succeed in framing the political conversation. — Rolf Melheim
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Max Müller – A Scholar Extraordinaire
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 May 2020
Although being German, Müller spent a considerable period of his life in England. He taught at Oxford University and was admired for his knowledge of classical Indian texts including the Upanishads and Vedas. He had access to several scholarly Sanskrit works that the East India Company had brought from India.
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Walt Whitman (31 May 1819 – 26 Mar 1892)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2020
Walt Whitman was an American poet whose verse collection ‘Leaves of Grass’ is a landmark in the history of American literature. Fascinated by this newcomer to the poetry scene, Emerson dispatched writers Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott to Brooklyn to meet Whitman.
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The Little Prince and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Le Petit Prince was first written in 1943 in French with original drawings by the author himself and translated into many languages becoming the most translated book in the French language. As the publisher writes, it is a work of timeless charm and transparency. It is a moral fable of the troubled times during the WWII as well as a spiritual autobiography of Antoine St Exupéry himself.
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Why East Beat West on COVID-19
Andrew Salmon | Asia Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
15 May 2020 – Perhaps the most startling trend visible in the global Covid-19 pandemic is the vast differential separating East Asia from the West when it comes to the disease’s impact. Very clearly, East Asian nations of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam have done better than the West on virus management. Why?
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Eliciting Insight from Mandala-Style Logos in 3D
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Interactive Engagement with Mandalas and Yantras in Virtual Reality
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In South Korea and China, Loosening Restrictions Brings Coronavirus Resurgence
NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 May 2020 – South Korea is grappling with its largest infection clusters after social distancing restrictions were loosened this month. In Wuhan, China, authorities announced yesterday they will test the city’s entire population of 11 million after new cases cropped up. Both countries are responding to the resurgence of cases with aggressive contact tracing.
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COVID-19 Has Blown Away the Myth about ‘First’ and ‘Third’ World Competence
Steven Friedman | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 Maio 2020 – One of the planet’s – and Africa’s – deepest prejudices is being demolished by the way countries handle COVID-19.
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My Earth Journey
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Jivad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
At the peak of the Corona Pandemic and in the midst of the Lock Down, on 26 March, Microsoft was granted the World Patent # WO 2020/060606 by the World Intellectual Property Organisation. Just as our Biodiversity and Indigenous knowledge were “mined” — for patenting and Biopiracy, there is now an attempt to mine and pirate the data from our bodies and minds, without our permission and consent. Our humanity and autonomy are being stolen. We are being reduced to “users” of the “machines” which are extracting our humanity and our information to build the next stage of the mechanical, money machine.
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The Race to Replace a Dying Neoliberalism
Walden Bello | Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 May 2020 – The world’s prevailing socio-political models aren’t going to survive this pandemic. What’s going to replace them? In response to the cataclysm occasioned by the coronavirus, three lines of thinking are emerging.
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(Português) O COVID-19: Ou Cooperamos ou Não Teremos Futuro Nenhum
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
17 maio 2020 – De aqui por diante devemos decidir: Ou obedecemos à nossa natureza essencial, a cooperação, no nível pessoal, local, regional, nacional e mundial, mudando a forma de habitar a Casa Comum ou comecemos a nos preparar para o pior, num caminho sem retorno.
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Malcolm X (19 May 1925 – 21 Feb 1965)
Biography – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Civil Rights Activist, Minister – African-American leader and prominent figure in the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X articulated concepts of race pride and black nationalism in the 1950s and ’60s.
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From Plague to Plaque?
Peter Nias – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 May 2020 – We say ‘never again’ while remembering awful events in human history. But do we really mean it, and try our hardest? Unfortunately, it seems to take at least two world-level disasters for humanity to seriously do something about it.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic, Sanctions on Iran, and the Maladies of World Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
12 May 2020 – The U.S. depends primarily on its military capabilities to punish and coerce those states that it regards as hostile to its global ambitions. Iran (and Venezuela) is the current leading example, as victimized by ‘the maximum pressure’ approach based on threats and punitive sanctions. In contrast, China has brilliantly extended its influence and increased its prosperity by reliance mainly on non-military instruments of expansion including trade, investment, and foreign assistance. The two global states exemplify an encounter between hard and soft power foreign policies.
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Corporate Media Don’t Think Americans Paid to Invade Venezuela Count as Mercenaries
Joshua Cho | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
11 May 2020 – In recent reports regarding the Bay of Pigs–style invasion the term “mercenary” was accompanied by scare quotes, as if these men could only be seen that way from the perspective of an Official US EnemyTM (whose perspective is always illegitimate in the eyes of corporate media). It is clear that the men behind the La Guaira invasion aren’t described as mercenaries because the US government and media alike favor regime change in Venezuela.
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Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated with COVID-19 Severity and Mortality
Katie Weisman | Children’s Health Defense - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
12 May 2020 – 100% of ICU patients less than 75 years old had Vitamin D insufficiency. It is a potential game-changer; vitamin D from sunshine is free and regular exposure for 20 minutes a day will provide about 1000 IU for who exposes 30% of body surface.
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Zeng | Cartoon Arts – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Boring Blame Game Goes on…
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Comprehensive World Food Policy
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
In a 12-May-2020 report the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization warned that the COVID-19 impact would increase by some 15 million the 820 million persons who the FAO estimates are the daily victims of hunger.
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Bolivia: The Open Veins Are Bleeding Six Months after the Coup
Verónica Zapata | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
On 10 Nov 2019 a violent coup d’état took place in Bolivia navigated by the U.S. and with the backing of the armed forces, the police and paramilitary groups forcing Evo Morales to resign at gunpoint. The objective was to regain control of lithium and to erase a government with an indigenous face that for the first time since the genocidal conquest of America had come to power.
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The Lessons We Learned from the Tiny Coronavirus SARS-Cov-2
Prof. Piero P. Giorgi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
During the Second World War the population spent hours in air raid shelters; some people prayed, others complained, some played the harmonica. And everyone thought: we will do it, and after this great fear everything will return as before. And so it did. That was bad, very bad.
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Venezuela Reveals Proof of Guaidó’s Involvement in Foiled Plot
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
17 May 2020 – Venezuela revealed today more links of lawmaker Juan Guaidó with the foiled May 3 plot through mercenaries hired by Silvercorp USA. Five days before the raid, a Florida law firm representing Silvercorp sent a letter to Guaidó to remind them that they owed an initial payment of US$1.5 million.
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(Português) Brasil Caminha para Recorde de Desmatamento da Amazônia
David Arioch | ANDA Agência de Notícias de Direitos Animais – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
14 maio 2020 – Entre agosto de 2019 e abril de 2020 o desmatamento na Amazônia totalizou 5.666 km² – quase o mesmo que a soma da extensão desmatada em 2018 e 2019 no mesmo período. Considerado isoladamente, o desmatamento no mês de abril é igualmente assustador: aumento de 64% em relação ao mesmo mês de 2019.
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(Italiano) Ascolta tua madre: nessuno dovrebbe essere troppo ricco o troppo povero
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
I super-ricchi sono diventati così esperti a distrarre e dividere il resto di noialtri da tenerci impantanati in beghe per ogni tipo d’ingiustizia—guerre, oppressione razziale, patriarcato, partigianeria, degrado ambientale –al punto di perdere spesso di vista la smania di potere e di profitto alla radice di ciascuno di questi mali. Quindi, nostro dovere fondamentale è far sì che nessuno sia troppo ricco p troppo povero.
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Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen
Michael LaForgia and Walt Bogdanich | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
16 May 2020 – President Trump sees arms deals as jobs generators for firms like Raytheon, which has made billions in sales to the Saudi coalition. The Obama administration initially backed the Saudis too, but later regretted it as thousands died.
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Netanyahu Sworn in as Israeli PM, Vows West Bank Annexation
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
17 May 2020 -“It’s time to apply the Israeli law and write another glorious chapter in the history of Zionism,” Netanyahu said. The Israeli Knesset swore in today a new government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who will alternate leadership with his former rival Benny Gantz, in a deal that could see the annexation of the Palestinian West Bank.
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(Français) 100 Ans de Honte : L’annexion de la Palestine a Commencé a San Remo
Ramzy Baroud | Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
18 Mai 2020 – Porté par le soi-disant accord du siècle de Donald Trump, Benyamin Netanyahou se prépare à annexer de nouveaux territoires palestiniens. L’histoire se répète-t-elle? Il y a cent ans déjà, les représentants de quelques puissants pays se sont réunis dans une ville endormie de la Riviera italienne pour sceller le sort des vastes territoires confisqués à l’Empire ottoman après sa défaite lors de la Première Guerre mondiale.
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Gangster Geopolitics and Israel’s Annexation Plans
Richard Falk | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 May 2020 – The Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank shows a shocking disregard for international law.
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See inside ‘Wet Markets’ Operating NOW, Where Diseases like COVID-19 Originate
PETA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
8 Apr 2020 – Why on Earth are these markets still open? Help prevent the next global pandemic: http://petauk.org/pandemic. New investigative footage reveals blood, rotting flesh, terrified cats and frogs, and other deplorable sights at Asian “wet markets”, which are STILL open.
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What You Need to Know about the ICC Investigation of Israeli War Crimes in Occupied Palestine
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
On April 30 Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, released a 60-page document diligently laying down the legal bases for the decision, concluding that “the Prosecution has carefully considered the observations of the participants, and remains of the view that the Court has jurisdiction over the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”
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[Satire] Now Is the Time to Cherish the Little Things, by Jeff Bezos
Jeremy Beiler | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
13 May 2020 – If you’re still going a little stir-crazy, why not stay in a different one of your houses every night of the week? We’ve all got to get creative here. Though it’s true that the pandemic has brought the world to its knees, it also has the power to bring us together, and in little, unseen ways it can even make us billions more dollars than we were making before.
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U.S. Uses “Humanitarian Intervention” to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests
Roger Harris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
No More War, By Dan Kovalik, 2020, New York: Skyhorse Publishing –> The book focuses on the one nation in recent times that has been continuously engaged in wars of aggression. In fact, that nation has been engaged in wars or military occupations in all but five years since its founding in 1776.
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15 May–International Conscientious Objectors’ Day
Lewis Randa | Engaging Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
Although conscientious objection to war is not a hot media topic today, respect, admiration, and appreciation for COs are expressed (mostly distally) around the world.
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Is India an Apartheid Nation?
Dr. M. Ashaq Raza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
An Ode to Kashmir Conflict – A Word to Kashmiris
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Consolation for Sorrow from King Arthur’s Court: Merlyn’s Advice on What to Do When the World Gets You Down
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
“Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.”
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Walking Blues — Song around the World (Music Video of the Week)
Keb' Mo' | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 May 2020
8 May 2019 – In honor of blues legend Robert Johnson’s birthday, we share our Song around the World with musicians from six countries. Originally written and recorded by Son House in 1930, Robert recorded his own version in 1936. We started in Patagonia, Argentina and added friends as we traveled to create a blues jam around the world. Enjoy!
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